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  • I believe the IDF’s “military capability” is largely subsidized by the US sending nearly-unconditional aid, and because of their ideology riling them up for their chance to shoot civilians during their stint in military service.

    I do think forcing the West to bear arbitrary reorganization of their borders, for once, would be “funny.” But who is going to force them to when neither the Israelis nor any European country would want that? The West could have enforced the Israeli project on the Middle East (even if Zionists weren’t salivating for the chance to colonize the area) in lieu of Jewish support.


  • Quoting a different one of my comments in this thread:

    You’re just recommending the same course of actions that the US North took against the Confederacy. And we see how well that worked out for stomping out their noxious belief today.

    If you just board up the building bigots spewed out hate from without stopping the people with bad thoughts from propagating them, then they’ll set up shop somewhere else. You have to dig them up by the roots.

    But killing people for “bad thoughts” isn’t a great road to start walking down. So we arrive back at my original comment.




  • We are clearly talking about different things.

    Obviously, you stop funding them but that doesn’t fix Israel. You’re just recommending the same course of actions that the US North took against the Confederacy. And we see how well that worked out for stomping out their noxious belief today.

    If you just board up the building bigots spewed out hate from without stopping the people with bad thoughts from propagating them, then they’ll set up shop somewhere else. You have to dig them up by the roots.

    But killing people for “bad thoughts” isn’t a great road to start walking down. So we arrive back at my original comment.


  • My question is: what to do with them?

    You can’t break them up and disperse them. We tried that with Nazis after WW2 and that just seeded Nazis everywhere that formed cores for Nazi sympathizers to rally around.

    Probably not great to lock them up in the country, like Cuba, either. It won’t fix their cancerous ideology…and most of their land is stolen.

    Really, any actions will only fuel their persecution complex, and they’ll weave that into the indoctrination they install into the following generations of Israeli.









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    Racism isn’t based on anything rational.

    Racists can laugh alongside members when a comedian makes joke referencing a shared culture. And the only way to differentiate between the appreciative and the mocking is the tone of the laughter. You may not have been making an insult, but that’s why it said it dovetails.

    It seems you’re focused on the specifics of “insulting mockery of Chinese speech” being a broad insult when comparing it to your joke. I don’t think the other person was claiming they were exactly the same joke, but were in the same category. Although I could be wrong. “Literally” has unfortunately come to mean both what it means and “not literally, but used for heightening.”



  • Translation: not forcing people to suffer and die for being born on the wrong side of arbitrary lines on a map in a foreign country that my country and their allies bombed, sanctioned, and otherwise manipulated into poverty.

    They wouldn’t leave their homes [edit: in the numbers racists complain about], if their countries were fine. And their countries aren’t fine as a result of decades, if not centuries, of exploitation and political and economic meddling/espionage from the West/“global north”.